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Ask HN: How Much Is Oncall Worth to You?
1 point by burger_moon on May 22, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments
At my current job I'm in an oncall rotation. Like most companies there is no compensation for this time.

I've been interviewing for a new job and some of them say I would not have to do any oncall rotation (I'll get that in writing if I accept the job) where as others do have oncall rotations.

How much (if anything) would you value not having to participate in oncall rotation?

Let's say for example your manager said you could be relieved of this duty but you'd have to take a pay cut. How much of a pay cut would you accept?



I'm theory, I'd rather find a job which doesn't involve on-call. Unless you have an easy to explain reason, for some people you may be "that person who doesn't do on-calls", which may be isolating or badly impact your promotion opportunities. (doesn't matter it was officially agreed)

In practice, I like the challenge of on-call, so personally I would do it.


It would depend upon the utilization of on-call and what the scope was - like if you're responsible for any critical bug in the app, or just keeping the site alive. And how often things were broken...

I'm more or less on-call all the time for the systems side of things, but I build boring systems, so I almost never get paged.




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